I spy the 50 Shades of Grey effect permeating high fashion once again. Marc Jacobs is the latest in a long list of designers doing the bondage and pin-up thing on the runway. This look being embraced by major brands is particularly amusing to me as somebody who was raised around dommes who dropped their kids off at school in flowery dresses before going off to work beating up dudes in the suits.

Like we've said before, all good things are produced in the margins and will eventually be gobbled up by the mainstream, so let's bury any illusions that the BDSM aesthetic is subversive, shall we?

Ripley Soprano is a co-owner and co-conspirator of this here magazine.